AIDSinfo and infoSIDA Web Sites Now Optimized for Display on Mobile Devices

AIDSinfo, a service of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently updated its AIDSinfo (English) and infoSIDA (Spanish) Web sites. They are now automatically optimized for display across all devices—desktop computers, tablets, and smartphones. Visitors to the AIDSinfo and infoSIDA Web sites will now be able to access all of the Web site content on any device they are using. AIDSinfo offers access to the latest, federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines, HIV treatment and prevention clinical trials, and other research information for health care providers, researchers, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and the general public.

We decided to create a responsive design Web site—a site that automatically adjusts to any device—because of a shift in the ways that people are accessing the Internet. Between 2010 and 2014, mobile traffic to the AIDSinfo Web site increased tenfold, and almost 90% of health care providers surveyed on the AIDSinfo Web site have Internet access at the point of care (i.e., while caring for patients), and of those, more than two thirds use a mobile device when seeing patients. With this redesign, health care providers, researchers, people with HIV/AIDS, their family and friends, and anyone who visits the Web site will now be able to access the HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines, drug database, fact sheets, clinical trials search, HIV/AIDS glossary, and all of the other Web site features in an easy-to-navigate format no matter what device they are using.

If you have saved the mobile site URLs (//m.aidsinfo.nih.gov/ and //m.infosida.nih.gov/) as a Bookmark or Favorite on your tablet or smartphone, you will be automatically forwarded to the responsive design Web site.

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